children and physically disabled persons, while safeguarding the principle of the confidentially of personal health data. Moreover, the offered facilities, goods and services shall observe medical ethics and give due regard to the gender perspective and to be culturally acceptable, alongside the necessity of providing trained health professionals of a high level of competence, and to provided medications that are suitable for use and scientifically validated, and to provide the hospitals and medical centres with the necessary medical equipment and devices, and ensure the availability of safe and healthy drinking water. 11. It is necessary to mention in this regard the widespread erroneous ideas regarding the right to health, and perhaps most prominently: that the right to health is not itself the right to enjoyment of good health, where some individuals think that it is incumbent on the State to guarantee good health to persons while in fact the good health of a person is essentially influenced by numerous factors beyond the direct control of states, and for instance, the biological constitution of the person and his/her social and economic circumstances, and hence for the sake of precision the right to health shall be described as representing the highest standard attainable in terms of physical and mental health, rather than being the unconditional right to enjoying good health. 12. Moreover, among those widespread ideas is regarding the right to health as being a goal to be achieved in the long term, for even though the right to health is a programmatic goal where due regard is given to gradualism in effectuating it, this does not mean that it entails immediate obligations upon states, where it is on the onus of states to exert all possible efforts within the limits of their available economic and material resources to effectuate the right to health without any delay, and there are also obligations arising immediately upon states that do not require the availability of any material capabilities including, for example, undertaking to guarantee the right to health in a non-discriminatory manner, and formulating particular legislations that regulate and protect enjoyment of the right to health, and adopting action plans for full effectuation of this right. Moreover, it is incumbent on states to provide the minimum level of the essential material elements of the right to health, such as providing vaccinations, basic medicaments, and maternal and child health care. 13. In addition to the foregoing there are numerous other instruments and conventions related to human rights whose contents underscored the right to health, where some of them are characterized by being general, and others address special issues or segments as relates to human rights, and reference may be made to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965 to which the Kingdom of Bahrain acceded according to Decree Number (8) of 1990, Article (5) paragraph (e) thereof, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) of 1979 to which acceded the Kingdom of Bahrain by virtue of Decree-Law Number (5) of 2002, Articles (11,12,14), and the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, to which the Kingdom of Bahrain acceded by virtue of Decree-Law Number (16) of 1991, Article (24) thereof, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of 2006 ratified by virtue of Law Number (22) of 2011, Article (25) thereof, in addition to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families of 1990, Articles (43,28,45). 84

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